Talk:2023 in climate change

Please have in mind the translators!
Hi!, good afternoon,

I am doing the translation of environmental and climate change articles in chronological order, and I need to leave my complaints here because the methodology that has been used in these pages makes the process of translation into other languages very complex.

To translate articles I rely on the translation tool that Wikipedia has, very useful because it translates the syntax of the templates (such as the references) automatically, so I dedicate my efforts to review the text and its quality when translated.

Now, the way that the references are inserted in type of articles in Wikipedia in English is that they are integrating the complete references inside the listaref template and then inserting  in the paragraphs to be referenced. Is there a reason why it is use this method?.

By using this code structure, the translation tool does not detect these format of references and therefore does not translate them or integrate them into the translated paragraphs. This is why the same amount of time I spent translating I had to spend copying the references and pasting them in each corresponding place in the text.

Please, I ask you to consider this complaint for the next articles you are going to publish, because the way that the code in the article is build now is complex and cumbersome for translation efforts.

Best regards LuisCG11 (talk) 22:17, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I was not aware of the effect of this citation method on translation. Could you please post a link to describe the translator tool? Or are you describing manual translation (by you as a human)?
 * To explain: I use the abbreviated format  to make it easier for humans to read the wikitext. — RCraig09 (talk) 23:29, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi!, i was using this tool to generate the translations. LuisCG11 (talk) 14:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)